OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs from the US (James Warlick), France (Pierre Andrieu) and Russia (Igor Popov), as well as the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Personal Representative Andrzej Kasprzyk held a meeting in Azerbaijan’s Absheron district for the IDPs from Azerbaijan’s occupied Zangilan district and Zangilan District secondary school No 33 in Baku.
Warlick said that good conditions have been created for the IDPs.
Moreover, the Minsk Group co-chairs visited an IDP family from Zangilan district. The family members told he co-chairs about how they became IDPs in 1993 and lived in a university hostel for a long time.
The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council`s four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
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